optioned the film rights to the “7th Son” trilogy. In late April, Hutchins announced that Warner Bros. Martin’s wasn’t the only interested party, though. “I also saw it as an opportunity to sneak in the basement window of mainstream publishing and see if they would be interested in ‘7th Son.'” Hutchins saw Personal Effects not only as a great creative endeavor, but also as a way into the publishing industry. Martin’s Press, after they hired Hutchins to work with Jordan Weisman on the novel/trans-media experience “Personal Effects: Dark Art.” In 2007, before the end of his podcast trilogy, “Descent” was picked up by St. By the time he finished the trilogy with the second and third installments (titled “7th Son: Deceit” and “7th Son: Destruction”), the number of subscribers to his podcast on iTunes had reached the tens of thousands. In 2006, he released “7th Son: Descent” as a serialized podcast novel, to great success. “I had given up on getting in print, but I had also been listening to podcasts in 2005, and was exposed to the works of folks like Scott Sigler, who were recording their novels as free, serialized audiobooks, and releasing them in podcast format.” For Hutchins, his rejections changed his perspective on getting “7th Son” out to the masses. With the advent of the Web, authors like Hutchins have many options when it comes to getting their content out to potential readers. His original 1300-page manuscript was turned down by every agent he met. “I started looking for an agent in 2005, and that went nowhere,” he said in an interview with me regarding “7th Son,” his trilogy of novels.
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